The Works of Daniel Webster, Volume 6Little, Brown, 1890 - United States |
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... prisoner in the jail at New Bedford , seventy miles from Salem , confined there on a charge of shoplifting , had intimated that he could make important disclosures . A confidential messenger was immediately sent , to ascertain what he ...
... prisoner in the jail at New Bedford , seventy miles from Salem , confined there on a charge of shoplifting , had intimated that he could make important disclosures . A confidential messenger was immediately sent , to ascertain what he ...
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... prisoners charged with the murder ; it continued in session till the 20th of August , with a few days ' intermis- sion ... prisoner was one of the con- spirators , that at the time of the murder he was in Brown Street at the rear of Mr ...
... prisoners charged with the murder ; it continued in session till the 20th of August , with a few days ' intermis- sion ... prisoner was one of the con- spirators , that at the time of the murder he was in Brown Street at the rear of Mr ...
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... prisoners , at Salem , in July . At that time , John F. Knapp was indicted as principal in the murder , and George ... prisoner , and was succeeded by Mr. Webster in the following speech . I AM little accustomed , Gentlemen , to the ...
... prisoners , at Salem , in July . At that time , John F. Knapp was indicted as principal in the murder , and George ... prisoner , and was succeeded by Mr. Webster in the following speech . I AM little accustomed , Gentlemen , to the ...
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... prisoner at the bar , as an individual , I cannot have the slightest prejudice . I would not do him the smallest injury or injustice . But I do not affect to be indifferent to the discovery and the punishment of this deep guilt . I ...
... prisoner at the bar , as an individual , I cannot have the slightest prejudice . I would not do him the smallest injury or injustice . But I do not affect to be indifferent to the discovery and the punishment of this deep guilt . I ...
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... prisoner , and are to be sure that we do not visit on his head the offences of others , we are yet to consider that ... prisoner . The learned counsel for the prisoner has said truly , that it is your individual duty to judge the ...
... prisoner , and are to be sure that we do not visit on his head the offences of others , we are yet to consider that ... prisoner . The learned counsel for the prisoner has said truly , that it is your individual duty to judge the ...
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Popular passages
Page 111 - The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different States in this Union, the free inhabitants of each of these States, paupers, vagabonds and fugitives from justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States; and the people of each State shall have free ingress and egress to and from any other State, and shall enjoy therein all the privileges of trade and commerce, subject to the same duties,...
Page 587 - In all our deliberations on this subject, we kept steadily in our view that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American — the consolidation of our Union — in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence.
Page 155 - For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground; yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
Page 600 - Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain, Here earth and water, seem to strive again ; Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But as the world harmoniously confused: Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.
Page 53 - It is accomplished. The deed is done. He retreats, retraces his steps to the window, passes out through it as he came in, and escapes. He has done the murder; no eye has seen him, no ear has heard him. The secret is his own, and it is safe! Ah!
Page 298 - Government to show a necessity of self-defence, instant, overwhelming, leaving no choice of means, and no moment for deliberation.
Page 157 - For all these have of their abundance cast in unto the offerings of God : but she of her penury hath cast in all the living that she had.
Page 547 - ... it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national union to your collective and individual happiness...
Page 573 - It is a thing well to be considered ; for the surest way to prevent seditions (if the times do bear it) is to take away the matter of them. For if there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire.
Page 105 - If we say the darkness shall cover us, in the darkness as in the light, our obligations are yet with us. We cannot escape their power, nor fly from their presence. They are with us in this life, will be with us at its close, and in that scene of inconceivable solemnity, which lies yet farther onward — we shall still find ourselves surrounded by the consciousness of duty, to pain us, wherever it has been violated, and to console us so far as God may have given us grace to perform it.